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“Warren Russ over at DWP tells me that we don’t have the juice to light up those neighborhoods. Not right now.” “You do if you turn the power off in Brentwood and Bel Air.” “Are you out of your fucking mind?” Evan just looked back at him. “We’re talking about pissing off some big donors.”
Scott Frank • Shaker: A novel
Thus the lights went out, and in that moment civilization in Fort Repose retreated a hundred years. So ended The Day.
Pat Frank • Alas, Babylon: A Novel (Harper Perennial Olive Edition)
Post-collapse NYS was left in a spiral of the wrong kind, continuin g to increase tax and financial incentives to try and retain or lure buisiness
New York State's incentive package to attract Micron Technology's $100 billion semiconductor manufacturing facility in Clay, near Syracuse, totals approximately $5.5 billion in performance-based Green CHI
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but the city's expansion above the mined galleries led to collapsing tunnels and surface subsidence
Vaclav Smil • Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization
David DeKok • Centralia, Pennsylvania
The city’s government did little to help its people. The will to help was not the force that drove that government. That force was greed. During the fifteen years in which Red Mike Hylan and then Beau James Walker had been Chief Magistrate of America’s greatest city, the Tammany leaders who served under them had seemed motivated primarily by the de
... See moreRobert A. Caro • The Power Broker
On top of the pain, poverty is instability. Over the past twenty years, rents have soared while incomes have fallen for renters; yet the federal government provides housing assistance to only one in four of the families who qualify for